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Will a large economy be stable? Building on Robert May's original argument for large ecosystems, we conjecture that evolutionary and behavioural forces conspire to drive the economy towards marginal stability. We study networks of firms in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-25 José Moran , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

The work is devoted to the construction of a new type of intervals -- functional intervals. These intervals are built on the idea of expanding boundaries from numbers to functions. Functional intervals have shown themselves to be promising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Dmitry A. Skorik

We study compositions of a positive integer $n$ in which the occurrence of even parts larger than a fixed threshold $k$ is controlled. More precisely, for each composition $m=(m_1,\dots,m_r)$ we consider the number of even parts strictly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Mahdi Koutchoukali

This work focuses on a theoretical analysis of a well-known inertia demonstration, which uses a weight suspended by a string with an extra string that hangs below the weight. The point in question is which string, the upper or lower, will…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-06-22 Hiroyuki Shima

This paper demonstrates a duality between the non-robustness of polynomial time dimension and the existence of one-way functions. Polynomial-time dimension (denoted $\mathrm{cdim}_\mathrm{P}$) quantifies the density of information of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Satyadev Nandakumar , Subin Pulari , Akhil S , Suronjona Sarma

Several implications of well-known fluctuation theorems, on the statistical properties of the entropy production, are studied using various approaches. We begin by deriving a tight lower bound on the variance of the entropy production for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Neri Merhav , Yariv Kafri

In response to growing concern about the reliability and reproducibility of published science, researchers have proposed adopting measures of greater statistical stringency, including suggestions to require larger sample sizes and to lower…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-07-09 Harlan Campbell , Paul Gustafson

In the general process of eliminating dynamic variables in Markovian models, there exists a difference in the irreversible entropy production between the original and reduced dynamics. We call this difference the hidden entropy production,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-28 Kyogo Kawaguchi , Yohei Nakayama

As the role of variable renewables in electricity markets expands, new market products help system operators manage imbalances caused by uncertainty and variability. Whereas work in the last decade has focused on constructing demand curves…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Elina Spyrou , Robin Hytowitz , Benjamin F. Hobbs , Ibrahim Krad , Liping Li , Mengmeng Cai , Michael Blonsky

We propose coalescent mechanism of economic grow because of redistribution of external resources. It leads to Zipf distribution of firms over their sizes, turning to stretched exponent because of size-dependent effects, and predicts…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-02 S. V. Panyukov

In this paper,we develop a novel representation of the zeta function expressed as the limiting difference between two structured double sums. This approach leads to a new and elegant identity involving maximum functions and additive terms,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Mahipal Gurram

A compression function is a map that slims down an observational set into a subset of reduced size, while preserving its informational content. In multiple applications, the condition that one new observation makes the compressed set change…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Marco C. Campi , Simone Garatti

Process flexibility is widely adopted as an effective strategy for responding to uncertain demand. Many algorithms for constructing sparse flexibility designs with good theoretical guarantees have been developed for balanced and symmetrical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Xi Chen , Tengyu Ma , Jiawei Zhang , Yuan Zhou

Economic engineering is a new field wherein economic systems are modelled in the same manner as traditional mechanical and electrical engineering systems. In this paper, we use Newton's theory of motion as the basis for the theory of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-27 Max Mendel

The goal of this paper is to propose a new way to generalize the Weierstrass sigma-function to higher genus Riemann surfaces. Our definition of the odd higher genus sigma-function is based on a generalization of the classical representation…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-03 Dmitry Korotkin , Vasilisa Shramchenko

We analyze the stability properties of equilibrium solutions and periodicity of orbits in a two-dimensional dynamical system whose orbits mimic the evolution of the price of an asset and the excess demand for that asset. The construction of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Vladimir Belitsky , Antonio L. Pereira , Fernando P. de Almeida Prado

An alternative formula is presented for the evaluation of the zeta function values $\zeta(2k)$ without the need for Bernoulli numbers. Our formula is recursive, and improves the efficiency with which we can calculate large values of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-18 Srinivasan Arunachalam

Small systems in contact with a heat bath evolve by stochastic dynamics. Here we show that, when one such small system is weakly coupled to another one, it is possible to infer the presence of such weak coupling by observing the violation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-07 Deepak Gupta , Sanjib Sabhapandit

The Digamma and Polygamma functions are important tools in mathematical physics, not only for its many properties but also for the applications in statistical mechanics and stellar evolution. In many textbooks is found its develop almost by…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2008-04-25 Michael Morales

Classic inflation, the theory described in textbooks, is based on the idea that, beginning from typical initial conditions and assuming a simple inflaton potential with a minimum of fine-tuning, inflation can create exponentially large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-18 Anna Ijjas , Paul J. Steinhardt , Abraham Loeb